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Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive
Michael Polansky is remarkably unassuming for someone operating in a corner of the world known for outsize egos.
Seated at a leafy patio outside...
Alphabet’s Waymo Unveils Custom Silicon to Power Its Next-Gen Robotaxis
Waymo is putting its own silicon in the driver’s seat.
The autonomous driving unit of Alphabet Inc. revealed on Thursday that...
The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom
Travel just two hours west of Beijing by train, and you’ll find yourself surrounded by the rolling grasslands and ancient cinder cones of...
Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine
Anthropic’s universal usage standards for Claude forbid the model from generating sexually explicit content, including depicting or requesting sexual intercourse or sex acts,...
Unverified Apps Now Face a 24-Hour Wait
Installing unvetted apps on Android will soon require a deliberate exercise in patience.
Google has started rolling out its “advanced flow,”...
Meta’s Big Reckoning Is Here
My colleague Paresh Dave and I each spent a day in federal court in Oakland, California, this week, monitoring the latest Meta child...
Oura faces lawsuit accusing it of misleading consumers about sleep-tracking accuracy
A proposed class action lawsuit is accusing smart ring maker Oura of deceiving consumers about the accuracy of its sleep tracking features.
The...
Pixel Watch 5 vs Galaxy Watch9: Price, Battery, Features Compared
Google and Samsung have priced their newest Android smartwatches within $20 of each other, making the cheaper option easy to...
